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2 unusual facts about William G. Bray


William G. Bray

Bray was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress.


Alfred B. Mullett

In 1882, he set up a practice in New York with Hugo Kafka and William G. Steinmetz, later establishing Alfred B. Mullett & Sons to practice with his two elder sons.

Baumol's cost disease

Baumol's cost disease (also known as the Baumol Effect) is a phenomenon described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s.

Bruce Marks

He appeared to lose a 1993 election for the 2nd senatorial district for the Pennsylvania Senate, but a federal judge declared him the winner of that election after finding that the campaign of William G. Stinson had engaged in election fraud.

Burbank, Oklahoma

Rich and famous oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.

Camp Nama

"Get to the bottom of this immediately. This is not acceptable," Mr. Cambone said in a handwritten note on June 26, 2004, to his top deputy, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin.

Christopher B. Kaiser

Henry Margenau and William G. Pollard, by his own admission, were two writers who influenced him as a science student in the 1960s.

David Bray

David A. Bray, chief information officer for the Federal Communications Commission

Detroit Wolverines

Founded at the suggestion of Detroit mayor William G. Thompson, the Wolverines played the first game of major league baseball in Detroit on May 2, 1881, in front of 1,286 fans.

Economics of the arts and literature

Key works in the cultural economics as such were those of Baumol and Bowen (Performing Arts, The Economic Dilemma, 1966), of Gary Becker on addictive goods, and of Alan Peacock (Public Choice).

Episcopal Diocese of Ohio

William Andrew Leonard was consecrated as the Fourth Bishop of Ohio in 1889 and was responsible, with financial backing from William G. Mather, for the construction of Trinity Cathedral, completed in 1907.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

Holy Redeemer Church, Bray

They also help to raise funds for their twin parish of Ikanga in Kenya.

Ingram Wilcox

He also appeared a few times on Fifteen to One in 1995 and 1996, and was a notable witness to the famous outtake where host William G. Stewart dropped his question cards whilst explaining the rules of the first round in 1995.

Jesus the Magician

Archaeologist William G. Dever argues (2005) that magic is "precisely what religion is, or at least was, however much that may offend modern sensibilities."

Minor Michigan infantry units of the American Civil War

The Stanton Guard was organized at Detroit, Michigan in April 1862 by Captain Grover S. Wormer and mustered in on May 10, to serve as guards over General William G. Harding, Washington Barrow and Judge Joseph C. Guild, three Confederate sympathizers from Nashville, TN sent as prisoners to the fort on Mackinac Island.

Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Anderson Society: William G. Anderson D.O., first African-American member of the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees, former President of the AOA, and leader of the Albany Movement.

Queen of Peace, Bray

The parish of Queen of Peace has been financially supporting its twin parish of Bugisi in Tanzania for a number of years.

Railway Express Agency

William G. Fargo, a New York Central freight clerk at Auburn, N.Y., and Henry Wells, a leather worker at Batavia, N.Y., organized Wells Fargo & Co.

Salisbury Indians

The team appealed, first to William G. Bramham, president of the National Association, then to Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of Baseball, but the ruling stood.

Sebold

William G. Sebold (1899–1970?), World War II double agent against Germany in the U.S.

Singerie

In France the most famous such rococo decor are Christophe Huet's Grande Singerie and Petite Singerie decors at the Château de Chantilly; in England the French painter Andieu de Clermont is also known for his singeries: the most famous decorates the ceiling of the Monkey Room at Monkey Island Hotel, located on Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames, England.

St. Agnes Boys High School

William G. Parrett - Former CEO of Deloitte Touche, Current Chairman and Senior Partner of Deloitte and Touche

The Tea Ladies

The producer of these programs, William G. Stewart, had earlier produced a pilot episode for a UK situation comedy series based on a group of tea ladies and resurrected the concept as The Tea Ladies in Australia.

Tricentennial Park

William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor– formerly the Tri-centennial State Park in Michigan

William Bowen

William G. Bowen (born 1933), former President of Princeton University

William Conley

William G. Conley (1866–1940), an American politician who served as Governor of West Virginia

William F. Herrin

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

William G. Anderson

After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Alabama State College for Negroes (now Alabama State University) in 1949, Anderson attended Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his certification in surgery.

William G. Bassler

Bassler was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1988 by then-governor Thomas Kean (R).

William G. Connare

He served as Bishop of Greensburg from 1960 to 1987.

William G. Curlin

Following the election of George W. Bush, Curlin praised the President's opposition to abortion, saying, "He gives us hope. That's what's important today. You felt under the former administration that there was no hope as far as the sanctity of life issue."

William G. Haan

They were the first Allied Army Unit to pierce the famed German Hindenburg Line of defense.

William G. Higgs

William Garland Higgs (born c. 1952) is an American businessman and co-founder of Mustang Engineering.

William G. James

By this time he had begun to publish his compositions, and in 1916 his ballet music By Candlelight was performed in concert at the Savoy Theatre, London.

In the late 1920s, he joined the newly formed Australian Broadcasting Company, the forerunner of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).

William G. Johnsson

Born in Australia, he earned a degree in chemical technology before attending Avondale College, where he met his wife Nolene Johnsson.

William G. Kerckhoff

As President of the South Coast Land Company, he also helped found the city of Del Mar, California.

William G. Laidlaw

He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Fifty-first Congress).

William G. Moore Jr.

C-130 Herculess under his command were the first aircraft into Hanoi to prepare for returning prisoners of war, and he commanded the homecoming operation at Clark Air Base under the direction of the commander in chief, Pacific Command.

He participated in the planning and execution of numerous missions: complex airlift efforts for resupply of Cambodia; evacuation of Phnom Penh (Operation Eagle Pull) and Saigon (Operation Frequent Wind); Operation Babylift; Operation New Life; and the Mayaguez operation.

William G. Roll

Roll received a Ph.D. in psychology from Lund University in 1989 for a thesis entitled, "This World or That: An Examination of Parapsychological Findings Suggestive of the Survival of Human Personality After Death".

William G. Schilling

After Head of the Class ended appeared in many more television shows such as Pacific Station, Homefront, In the House and Going to California, and in films such as In the Line of Fire, Space Jam and Thank Heaven.

In 1986, Schilling was cast in the role of Doctor Harold Samuels in the American television sitcom Head of the Class, alongside Howard Hesseman and later Billy Connolly.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

Duquesne had been a spy for Germany since World War I; before that, he had been a Boer spy in the Second Boer War.

William G. Steiner

He remains active in the Orange County political scene, primarily as an elder statesman of Orange County politics.

William G. Stewart

Stewart is a long-standing supporter of the campaign to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece.

William G. Young

After his federal appointment Judge Young sentenced Richard Reid, better known as the shoe bomber, to life in prison.

William Tanner

William G. Tanner (1930–2007), American academic and Southern Baptist pastor


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